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Malicious Chrome and Firefox extensions that block their removal in order to hijack a user’s browser to drive clicks up on YouTube videos and hijack searchers are automatically infecting user devices. The extensions direct users away from pages that would allow the user to disable or delete them either by closing out pages with extensions/add-ons…

Adobe and Google have partnered to allow Flash to run with sandboxing technology in the Chrome browser, the two companies announced Wednesday. "This first iteration of Chrome's Flash Player sandbox for all [supported] Windows platforms uses a modified version of Chrome's existing sandbox technology that protects certain sensitive resources from being accessed by malicious code, while allowing applications to use less sensitive ones," read a post on The Chromium Blog. The release initially is available to Chrome developer channel users. In November, Adobe released its latest Reader version, X, which includes sandboxing that forces operations that display PDF files to the user to be run inside a confined environment. - DK

Despite the safety mechanisms baked into the Chrome browser and ChromeOS, Malwarebytes has found hackers are using rogue extensions to perform everything from malvertising attacks to installing adware.